Many organizations have started using social media tools internally to interact with their employees. However, the majority of companies have either stayed away from using these tools or failed to see satisfactory results. In fact, in our survey of 1060 global executives, only 30% said that they work for companies that benefited from the internal use of social media.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/09/use-social-media-to-develop-emotional-capital-with-your-employees/
Out of curiosity I have done some online search about virtual worlds. I have also visited INSEAD’s Second Life (SL) location and while there, I was wondering around SL’s mainland, something I have not done for 3 years now (!). To my astonishment there was more life on Second Life than I expected.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/08/virtual-worlds-dying-but-slowly/
There is an interesting conflict between new and traditional media when it comes to global sport events, the biggest of which being the summer Olympic games. Old media buys broadcasting rights and airs events punctuated by advertising. As long as events are aired in real time there is no problem.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/08/olympics-on-new-and-traditional-media/
With the Facebook IPO muddle, will money stop flowing to social media? Will the social media space stop consolidating (no more Instagram-like deals?) because the social media giants’ acquisition currency, their stock, has been devalued? Will the best entrepreneurs reconsider their social media ideas; put them on the back burner; be unable to fund them?… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/06/end-of-social/
Chances are that you will find a news story about a drone attack on militants within a week of reading this blog post. They have become common in Pakistan, and are now used in other places such as Somalia and Yemen.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/05/network-theory-and-drone-attacks/
Facebook has just acquired the maker of the iPhone application Instagram, which lets users do simple photo editing and sharing with friends, including social-network functions such as “like” and comments. The application itself is in no way complex enough to explain the $1 Billion price (even the valuation of the company on Feb 2., $30 million, would be a rich price for such application).… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/04/instagram-for-1-billion-what-is-it-really-worth/
Many of my recent readings of the business press give the impression that a consensus seems to emerge among professional content providers (also called “content mills”) – online newspapers (e.g. Huffington Post, The Business Insider), online tabloids (e.g. BuzzFeed) or blogs.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/04/social-publishers-a-new-paradigm-for-online-media/
The Jasmine Revolution that has affected many of the Arab countries showed how big a role the Internet in general and social networks in particular can play in promoting political freedom. Social networks promoted the free flow of information and also helped people organize spontaneous demonstrations against oppressive regimes.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/03/freedom-and-the-internet/
